Emma+Herod

On April 30, 1923, 29-year-old homemaker Emma Herod died in her home from an abortion performed there that day. One of Chicago's many physician/abortionists, Dr. Emma J. Warren, age 53, was arrested for the death. On July 15, Warren was indicted for felony murder in Emma's death.

Warren had already been implicated in the 1917 abortion death of 27-year-old Annie DeGroote.

Emma, a native of Milwaukee, was the daughter of German immigrants Fred H. and Anna (Fischer) Groen, and the wife of William M. Herod.

Emma's abortion was typical of criminal abortions in that it was performed by a physician.

Keep in mind that things that things we take for granted, like antibiotics and blood banks, were still in the future. For more about abortion in this era, see [|Abortion in the 1920s].

For more on pre-legalization abortion, see [|The Bad Old Days of Abortion]

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 * [|Homicide in Chicago Interactive]

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